Love the game & Support Team BUT going broke!
Sat Mar 01 2025 Lizzie110148I found this game while sick, depressed and having anxiety. It was amazing how much it helped me! I really can’t explain why it worked when so many other things did not. I even told my doctor! The graphics are great, the main game is engaging and there are side games and events that keep things busy and interesting. I have had many questions, some technical issues…and I have frequently written to Support. The Support Team is wonderful, caring and empathetic! Love them! I have never bought in app purchases in games before but slowly started in this game since it was really helping me. Aside from the game you are able to trade cards from the card albums with other players and I have had interactions with players in many foreign countries, now with a pen pal friendship with a player in Belize…I am in the USA. Anxiety is now a way of life in my country and so I find great escape and comfort playing Travel Town and look forward to playing every day. I am told some folks only use the free energy you can get to play but that has not been my experience. I justified my spending as it was good for my health and cheaper than more therapy…but I have spent so much now it is really embarrassing and not sustainable on my income! I wish the game was more affordable to play long term. It has been great but expensive!
Fun game, but
Wed Apr 09 2025 Starseed007I have been playing this game for over a year, almost every day. I really enjoy it and all the side challenges. I especially love the islands. The graphics are really cute. If I could, I would play for hours, but sadly, 100 energy points only lasts me about three minutes of play. Then I watch the ads to get the extra 25 points. That gives me another five minutes, and then if I don’t have enough diamonds to buy more energy after watching the ads, I can’t play anymore until I wait and wait to get one energy point every two minutes. Also, I very rarely ever win a side challenge (because I never have enough energy or diamonds) and it ends before I can win. I also very rarely ever complete all the daily tasks because I have no energy or diamonds to buy energy or items.
It would be better to start each day with 500 energy points and unlimited opportunities to watch ads to get extra energy, or even shorten the time from two minutes to 30 seconds to earn an energy point. Because for people like me who really like the game but am unable to purchase energy or diamonds, it would mean I could play more than just a few minutes at a time.
Boring
Thu Jun 05 2025 Guy 1139*This game was fun at first, but as you het higher in level the things needed to advance get more and more complicated to get. This might sound great. Like it’s better because it’s more challenging, but no, it isn’t more challenging. It just takes longer doing the exact same thing you were doing at the lower level.
In game you use various generators to make different lines of products. Each generator seems to prefer one of their components more than others, so if I need soup and to merge the soup to higher levels, I might waste all of my energy making fruit salad and never even make one pre soup component. The game also retires these generators at various levels, so you may have spent 3 days leveling up that soup and now there are no more foods needed in the game at all.
The absolute worst part of the game is opening it. You cannot start playing without at least 2, maybe up to 6 pop up windows advertising events and special items and sales that they are having.
Another dumb feature is that the generators need to recharge when you over use them. They only recharge when you do the overuse though e.g. I use the soup generator 38 times then do other stuff or wait for more energy to regenerate. You would think after 4 hours the generator would be back to normal, unfortunately after 2 more clicks you have to wait for it to recharge. (Hypothetical numbers) Why won’t it refresh while it is sitting idle for 4 hours. Terrible.
Used to like it a lot
Thu Feb 02 2023 Snowywolf5645Thie game started off really fun and I really enjoy it especially considering theres little to no ads interrupting everything. It takes so much time and energy now to actually accomplish anything and even if I use gems to replenish my energy half the time it gives me things I don't need. My board has become so full and overwhelming that I can barely tell what I have on it anymore. And random stacks of cookies now? What am I supposed to do with these? I have resorted to selling them which only gives me like 2 energy. Selling high quality items barely gives you anything. And im now stuck on trying to get enough coins and building materials. I'm pretty far along but thats because I give a lot of time between to build up energy. And also the daily challenges are near impossible, you would have you spend basically 24/7 on the game to get all of them considering it asks you to collect coins most of the time. I also hate the tile/pottery thing, takes so much energy to use it and it never gives you want you want. This game is based on luck now. Stop adding random stuff and cluttering everything. If we complete one of the producers and max everything out in it we should be able to put it away indefinitely so there's more space, allow easier daily tasks, make maxed out items worth more. And get rid of the useless items that build up.
Functionality Malfunction
Sat Sep 07 2024 Jtyma002This game is fun! I am an adult (even if I don’t like “adulting” sometimes) and I love to match up to fill orders and upgrade buildings, but every now and then recently, I get the option to play an ad to pop a bubble for a match piece to something, like I was trying to get the other half to the sewing station so I could make the Stitched Panel to complete another order, and the ad button didn’t work! It was a dud! I moved the bubble and it disappeared, leaving the bubble with only the option to spend gems to pop, and me with one less gem than what was required to pop! I’m not spending anymore money on this game, but I’ll make you all (the developers) some money by watching ads if the functionality always worked! To boot, the buttons at the bottom of my app didn’t work either, so I did a hard restart of the app to restore that functionality, but the ad button didn’t reappear. I’d give more stars, but don’t block me like that when it’s already hard enough at higher levels! I’m level 49, almost 50 and it is hard getting the stuff together to upgrade building and earn XP to level up! To bring it around, I might have gotten the money to get the next upgrade and earn enough XP, if only I’d have been able to watch an ad (which I despise but will watch to earn stuff) to get that second half of the sewing station!
Enjoyable
Tue Dec 03 2024 TwinGrayThis game is fun and it has no ads unless you choose to watch adds for extra energy or to pop bubbles. I gave it 3 instead of 5 because some orders require more than 100 energy to complete and it takes days to finish unless you’re buying more energy. At first, there is the option to use diamonds for energy but it keeps increasing the price which seems kind of unfair. I am personally not a fan of the trading cards. I wish there was a way we can opt out of getting them “reward” and instead get more tool boxes/bags or energy. Or maybe I just don’t care about it because I am not connected to a community to trade. But besides that, its definitely enjoyable. I am glad they have a feature to remove the chats. I wasn’t in it for the story. I am only playing because I like matching the items and seeing what comes next. I will not that I am a fairly new player so I an still haven’t gotten past level 20 but I am starting to get a little burnt out over having to create items to create other items but rarely gives you the items you need so you have to recreate the item once it runs out. I’ve just been skipping those orders unless they offer tool boxes/bags since they’re the only way to advance certain levels.
Annoyed
Sat May 18 2024 kierst23The further along I get into this game, the longer I find myself just waiting. The board fills up with different items that make other items, then side items. Some create duplicate balloons you can pop by watching and ad or spending jewels. If you don’t want the balloon item, it’ll eventually pop and turn into coins usually. But it takes FOREVER for these bubbles to pop. I’ve waited about 2 minutes for one to pop because I had no more room on the board and needed to cash in the coins to create more space, but I had to wait. The orders keep getting more expensive and harder, but they hardly pay you out anything. Game inflation, man. So, so frustrating. I know I’m reaching the end of playing this game, because even to play it throughout the day, it’s almost impossible to do without spending REAL money, and I’ve spent way more on this game than I have any other game ever…. Because I had to in order to keep playing. If I don’t spend money, it’ll take almost a full day just to fill one order. So yeah, almost done with this unless the orders are a little bit more accessible to fill or the rewards were bigger for the GIANT order I just filled. Make the boards bigger too, as players get further in the game. Or the inventory. Idk. Just seems like I can’t be the only one feeling this way.
LOVE THIS GAME
Fri Nov 01 2024 CheapSkate1I’ve been wanting to write this review for awhile but I never write reviews, especially for games.
Anyway this game is awesome it’s very user friendly. It is one of very few games that you don’t have to spend any money on to progress, you just have to be patient. When I started playing the energy went up to 200 but even after it changed to 100 I didn’t feel cheated. The developers are VERY RESPONSIVE. Every Time I had an issue with the game they responded and I received compensation in the game for any glitches. I couldn’t believe it! Unfortunately I have to delete the game for personal reasons. (If the developers come up with a way to skip level 67 let me know!!)
I love the trading group! Communicating with people all over the world.. I use a translator so I can talk to them in their language, so fun!
It makes me sad reading comments on FB of people commiserating about a stupid little things. This game is fun and addictive just like it should be. I’m going to miss it but maybe I’ll start it again from the beginning! One note .. maybe this is just my experience but the last update seemed to make the images smaller Please Change It Back, smaller looks weird :-)
Don’t be a victim like me!!!!
Wed Jun 12 2024 Unfair personIt’s the first time to leave my review for the app. I agree with that this game is fun and addictive. I’ve been paying a small amount for playing a game, but im not willing to buy an item over twice per game or big items. That means that im really confident the transaction should be so obvious. First few times were good. At some point, the notifications for buying item transactions had become so strange. The bill showed two or three different transactions at the same time. I thought previous transaction can be included in the same bill. However, Im pretty sure it was wrong since I didn’t buy items sequentially in a short time. I claimed few days later it happened, but my claims were rejected.
Today, I tried to change my payment method on purpose with apple cash which has only $10 of balance. I attempted to buy one item of $7.99. It was denied BECAUSE they charged two transactions of $1.99 and $7.99 at the same time. So, the balance is not sufficient to pay both. Unluckily, you got the fraudulent transaction of $1.99 that I haven’t tried and received. Although I haven’t got the item for $7.99 that I was willing to buy, but I can catch the moment that my money was stolen. I have claimed the transactions that I got stolen so far. Hopefully today’s transaction would be a proof and helpful for the investigation.
Very cheaty
Sat Aug 03 2024 Awesome!...no not reallyUpdate: developers do not listen to their players! It should not take 2 minutes to gain energy! This is ridiculous and a waste of time. It is a pay to play game 100%. There is absolutely no way to gain energy unless you’re paying real money. I’m deleting and never downloading again.
This game was fun the first three levels and then turned very cheaty very fast. It never gives you what you need. It takes forever to build up energy. There is absolutely zero way to earn energy unless you spend diamonds or real money. You can’t upgrade buildings without building material but you can’t get the material because you can’t get the items or even move the customers around. I’ve had the game for 2 days and it’s absolutely annoying that you can’t get anywhere in this game unless you spend money! Have you seen this economy??? No one is willing to spend their hard earn income on a game. Now if you gave us more ways to earn energy or did it like some other games where you can give others energy it would be great! Also why do you need WiFi with this game?? The only reason I gave 2 stars is because there are no adds. So thank you for that. But this game needs serious work with the players in mind. You could always go look at Royal match or Lilly’s garden for ways to improve the game. Thanks for reading.
